The Chicago darling's father, James Jordan, was found ten days after he was shot dead, lying in his car, with his belongings and a replica of the championship ring looted, and the police initially determined that he had been killed for money.

"I heard that the scene was miserable." Linda said.

"What should I do?" Song Ya asked.

"Call to condolence first, and then visit your home?" Linda said, "He lives not far from you. ”

Song Ya shook his head, "Let's call his agent David Falke first, if something like this happens, he shouldn't have the heart to deal with outsiders." ”

"Aren't you two good brothers?" Linda asked, surprised.

Song Ya and Dion Wilson both laughed, "It's just propaganda." He asked Linda to contact David Falck, and after asking Jordan if he didn't want to answer the phone now, he asked the other party to convey his condolences.

Soon, all kinds of speculations from the unscrupulous media in the United States came, some from the fact that his father lost contact for ten days, and his family still knew nothing about questioning his family relationship, and there was speculation that it was because he owed a huge amount of gambling debts and was killed by his father to collect debts.

Song Ya can't help much, he has to take advantage of his rare free time to take care of the affairs of the record company, and occasionally he has to go out to help Al play songs.

"Basically, aside from your resources, the company is basically running around Miss Fergie's first specialty."

Linda took over part of Yeremov's work, "the operation is healthy. ”

"Hmm."

Song Ya is concentrating on checking Brenda Starr's profile, this is the same as Mariah Carey, a female singer of white and Latin mixed race, no wonder the two had a good relationship at that time, and Mariah Carey also said that she took care of her.

She actually didn't have long to be out of luck, the most popular time was in 87 and 88, and after signing with MCA, she broke into the top 20 of the B chart with a dance song I Still Believe, but this is also her only single to enter the top 20.

"It's pretty good."

Flipping through the cover of her album in the early eighties, she turned out to be a young girl, which surprised Song Ya very much, and her voice is very young, her timbre and image packaging are very similar to Madonna, to put it bluntly, she is deliberately imitating, and the style and character are more similar to the white sweetheart Debbie Gibson, although Debbie Gibson debuted later than her, and she is much more popular than her.

Unfortunately, it was the end of disco music, and she and Debbie Gibson passed through the speed of light almost at the same time, and at the end of the eighties, she followed the trend and switched to rhythm and blues, signed with Epic Records, which was owned by Columbia Records at the time, and died violently on her debut album in Epic Records in 90, and was terminated in 91.

"Haha......"

Song Ya flipped through a media photo again, and immediately laughed, it should have been taken by Mariah Carey when she was singing back, she was in the center of the picture, and Mariah Carey was very scheming to stick her head over from the side to rub the exposure.

"Do you know her?" He asked Linda.

"I'm not familiar with it, I was mostly on the West Coast at the time." Linda shook her head, "She has basically never been out of the East Coast, and she was born in 66, almost thirty years old." ”

"Yes, but the voice is too young, and people believe it just by hearing the voice say that they are sixteen years old. By the way, although she has never been popular, according to her singer's income, she will not be mixed to the point of living by doing odd jobs, right? Song Ya listened to her very failed album in 90 for a while, in fact, most of them continued the saliva dance song route, with only a small amount of rhythm and blues, but the singing skills are no problem, the key is that youthful voice, which is too likable, "The contract was terminated in 91, and now it is only 93 years, and her father is still Jewish." ”

"Who knows, sucking, out-of-order behavior, spending money indiscriminately, and having a psychological breakdown because the gap is too big." Linda replied, "It's all possible, there are 10,000 ways for a singer to bankrupt himself." ”

"Hmmm......"

When Song Ya heard this, she changed her mind a little, and said after a deep groan, "I won't see her directly when she comes, you talk to her first, pay attention to observation, I don't want to suck or live too indulgent singers." I think it's okay to bring her to see me again, and if it doesn't, I'll find an excuse to send her away. ”

"Okay."

Linda waited until Brenda, who came to Chicago alone, and talked for more than an hour before bringing her into Songya's office.

"Are you...... Brenda? ”

Song Ya was immediately disillusioned when she saw the real person, the young girl of the year has now begun to develop in the direction of a black aunt, both in appearance and figure, she has begun to approach Linda next to her, and even her complexion has become much darker. And the face is very wide, the real person who doesn't wear much makeup is much worse than the promotional photos, no wonder she only took the side face in those photos before!

What the hell is this?

Song Ya immediately remembered the future Mariah Carey in the Apocalypse song A no no, could it be that the fate of black mixed-race girls will be like this?

"Yes, hello APLUS." Brenda stretched out her hand generously, and fortunately, the tone still retains that sense of youthfulness.

"Hello, Mimi often mentions you in front of me." Song Ya restrained her emotions and shook hands with her with a smile.

"Really?" But her arrogance seemed to be still retained, revealing a sneer that she didn't believe at all but didn't want to debunk it in person: "She didn't take the initiative to contact me much." ”

"You know, Motura watched her closely, but that's not a problem now."

Fortunately, the soundtrack of the movie doesn't eat much of the singer's appearance, "Don't waste time, come." Song Ya took her to the deep sea recording studio.

"Emily, stop playing."

Cousin Emily is recording songs and playing in it, she is thirteen years old, and the precocious characteristics of black people are also vividly reflected in her, Song Ya has not considered praising her debut, but unfortunately her talent is a little worse, and her appearance is 'very good' inherited from Aunt Susie, and her figure is also developing in the direction of Connie......

Kicking little Emily out of the studio, he was going to try Brenda's singing voice, and if she continued to sing in her old dance tunes, or ruined her voice after two or three years of leisure, it would definitely not work.

"Sing what?" She asked, walking over to the microphone.

"Eric." Song Ya beckoned to the tuner, "Pick the first TLC song for her, and Losonda is responsible for the rhythm and blues passages." ”

Eric quickly found the score and accompaniment tape and got everything in order.

"Contemporary rhythm and blues, and catch up with pop ah?" Brenda smiled helplessly when she saw the score, "Actually, I've already started planning to transform into Latin music......"

She also seems to be aware of her own problems, from Madonna to Debbie Gibson to Rhythm & Blues, the record company has basically set her up as a female singer who follows the trend, what looks and genres are popular.

"Don't complain about this kind of opportunity, Brenda." Linda pressed the intercom and reprimanded her, "Or do you want to go back to doing odd jobs?" ”

"Gig ...... My hands are so rough that I can't look at them. Brenda put her hands on the microphone and said with self-pity.

"Brenda!" Linda warned again.

"Okay, okay." She signaled that she was ready.

Eric plays the accompaniment, it's TLC's Baby Baby Baby Baby, "And you want my love......" she sings along to the music.

Song Ya interrupted at the first sentence, "I want to bring some black voices with soul music elements." ”

"Wait a minute." She pondered for a while, and then began singing again.

Subsequently, Song Yati had more and more opinions, but he was more and more satisfied, the other party obviously did not give up his persistence on the road of music, there is no problem with his singing skills, but the style needs to be adjusted, there is plenty of time, no hurry, dance out of my life I will enter the group at the beginning of next year to start filming, about the end of March, the original soundtrack will catch up and enter post-production.

"Erik, get Dion Wilson."

After feeling that the other party's ability to adjust was also good, he explained his thoughts and needs to Dion Wilson.

"Do you want to use her?" Dion Wilson asked.

"If there's no better candidate, it's her." Song Ya left the follow-up work to her production director.

Of course, the candidate has not really been decided for a day, and he will not take out the apocalypse song for a day.

"Does Brenda have an agent?" He asked Linda.

"No, can my husband sign her?" Linda saw Song Ya's inclination and took the opportunity to propose, "Sign with his artist management company?" ”

"In principle, there is no problem, but you must know that I am very controlling, and I want the agency of my artists to always be consistent with me."

After experiencing the departure of Phigie and Jimmy, Song Ya is also looking for a more convenient way to control the artist, maybe Linda and his wife are a good bridge, in short, try it first, giving Linda and his wife some benefits can also make her more loyal, "Do you know what I mean?" ”

"I understand." Linda replied.